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By Peter Ellerton
There is a Fox News headline that goes like this: ‘Transgender female runner who beat 14,000 women at London Marathon offers to give medal back’.
Read about the event elsewhere and it turns out the athlete was also beaten by thousands of people and it was a participation medal. While the Fox News headline is true, it is framed to potentially elicit a negative reaction.
Misinformation is on the rise. We’re told we need to think critically when we read things online, but how can we recognise such situations? And what does it mean to think critically anyway?


"Critical thinking is based on the idea that if all ideas are equal, then all ideas are worthless. Without this assumption, there can be nothing to be critical of."
Peter Ellerton
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